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When an ultra-high-net-worth family walks into the office of Maria Elena Lagomasino for the first time, she flashes a deck of cards containing what she calls the "Keeps Me Awake at Night" questions.

Countless leaders in the world of finance espouse the cause of financial literacy. But none has done more about it than Muriel Siebert.

With a recession and regulatory changes at home, Diane Offereins, Discover Financial Services' head of payments, looked overseas for opportunity.

There are more women than ever on boards of directors, but there's still a long way to go.

In the few interviews she grants, Fidelity Investments' Abigail Johnson is invariably discreet on the question of whether she wants to one day run the firm founded by her grandfather.

Irene Dorner might not be running the U.S. banking operations of HSBC Holdings today if it hadn't been for "an intervention" from a top corporate executive.

Word that Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren won't be teaching her contract law class fueled rumors she will be nominated as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

As the Federal Reserve Board and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency take over supervision of thrifts and their holding companies, savings and loans have grown increasingly scared about a possible crackdown on their business.

After less than a year, Denise Wypiszenski has stepped down from her job as chief operating officer at Robert W. Baird's private wealth management group.

In its first-annual ranking of “The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking,” U.S. Banker pays tribute to the executives whose contributions to their institutions and their communities are most profound. With varying management styles and ways of generating increased shareholder value, brand equity and bottom-line performance, these 25 women personify power, business savvy and creative intelligence.

Many women are unhappy with the service they get from wealth managers — and in some cases their attitude, a global study by Boston Consulting Group found.

The setting was festive and the fashions elegant, but when Heidi Miller took the stage to accept her award as Most Powerful Woman in Banking, pride turned to near defiance ...

Many of the women being honored in this issue say female CEOs would have had more diverse management teams that would have reined in the institution long before losses began piling up like leaves in the woods on a windy fall day.

The financial market meltdown of September 2008 was a career-ender for some Wall Street bankers, but for Karen Peetz and her team at BNY Mellon, it was the opportunity of a lifetime.

Most payments executives found themselves pulled to the center of a perfect storm this year, and Pamela Joseph, U.S. Bancorp's vice chairman of payment services, has weathered it remarkably well.

Few women in banking have a bigger job than Barbara Desoer. She has led all major merger activities at Bank of America over the last three years, including deals for MBNA and U.S. Trust in 2006, LaSalle Bank in 2007 and Countrywide Financial in 2008.